First screen -Jodi

JODI

Jodi is a Dutch design group comprising of Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans. They are central figures in the net.art movement; they have set measures and standards against which all other works in their genre are compared to.
Jodi transfers processes, which normally occur in the background onto the surface of web pages, this is now, know as Net.art, or browser art.
Their websites are very effective and in a sense beautiful, they flash and burn with random scrolling, uncontrollable programming code, and fragmented shards of interface elements. Jodi have said that they could shut down everyone’s computer with one line of code, buts that not interesting. But as I have found out some of Jodi’s websites do crash your browser or even your whole system.Jodi put their work onto screen immediately without any press releases and without their bio’s. They say this is because ‘when you look at a exhibition, people are sniffing for information plates next to the pieces before they even look at the work itself. They want to know who did the piece before they have an opinion about it, we try to avoid that.’ When Jodi first website was put onto the Internet people seriously thought they had made a mistake. They got many emails telling them how to correct their problems.

KEY points:
* The first two letters of their names Jo and Di create Jodi.
* Net.art is their Internet project, which simulates browser bugs and system errors
* Net.art strips away the glamour of the Internet, and immerses the user in a well ofdata,which resides beneath the surface.
* They explore the computer from the inside and mirror it on the net.